“An English teacher in our village tried to reason with them, but they just called him a kaffir [non-believer] and tied him to their car and dragged him away. We heard they beheaded him later.

“My neighbour was beheaded because they said he was ‘delivering vegetables to the kaffir’. They burned his farm, livestock, even his bees – they destroyed everything.”

He also described where the ISIS fighters are coming from:

“They are Chechen, they are English, they are from all over Europe. We know because we can hear their accents.”

One man named Amin Fajar said,

“I have seen tens, maybe hundreds, of bodies with their heads cut off. Others with just their hands or legs missing.

“I have seen faces with their eyes or tongues cut out – I can never forget it for as long as I live. They put the heads on display to scare us all.”

ISIS has never been an organization that has lacked ambition. The ISIS propaganda magazine “Dabiq” quotes Shaykh Abu Mahamed al-Adnani: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah, the Exalted.”